A Deeper Understanding of Prayer - Part 7 - Rabbi Yossi Kantor

we left off in our bringer to feed us to life class we were in the middle of the blessing the last blessing of gratitude we say I mean we say a lot of blessings of gratitude but the last official blessing of gratitude in the series in the morning right on page 20 21 in the artscroll so we were dealing with yesterday the problem of why we asking a Shem to help us with Torah and mitzvot if we say everything is in the hands of him except for the olive heaven which translates into my my doing of mitzvahs my the amount that I am in awe of a sham that's in my hands so how could it be that we ask him for help so we answered the Goomer also says that a person who comes to purify himself he will be helped so we ask a sham we say sham I want to purify myself I want to live a life according to you will please help me right so what are the things that we ask for his help in to a custom us to studying Torah and to detaching us to his Commandments right and then we now get into a series of requests to basically keep us away from trouble the shrimp shouldn't bring us into sin or into the power of transgression right nor under the power of challenge now we left off yesterday with a question that wait a second I thought that this world is about overcoming challenges so and you'll find that the ROM call explains that man's goal in life is to serve a Shem to do is mrs. and to overcome challenges so why are we asking Hashem to keep us away from challenges yeah I mean I think that that's a good that's something we see like that there's certain times in life that a Shem gives us easier test sometimes you give this hard test you know every now and then we are what's called maxing out in weightlifting right if you that a person who is trying to become the best weightlifter he can become so he has what's called a maxout day and that's a day we really pushes himself to achieve the the highest amount that he can right now people don't try to do that everyday people don't try to max out every day that most of our lives in as we see the most of our lives we have settled some smaller challenges and every now and then a Shem will give us let's say a bigger challenge now here's the interesting aspect about a challenge that a challenge or a test has the opportunity to elevate us but it also the opportunity if we fail the test to bring us farther down right so i would say on a simple aspect we're coming from a humble we're coming from humility that says we say to a shaman Shem I don't want to hurt your world you know if you give me a test that's too difficult for me to accomplish you know I might fail and that will affect you world negatively and I don't want to be we put in that position that could be one possibility um we say another another just an interesting aspect of our tests the gomorian tells us that let's say a man and he needs to get home there's two directions in front of him one direction there's no bars there's no clubs there's no nothing it's straight walk straight way home the other one is a detour through all the bar scene of Vegas whatever and they're both the equal amount of time to get home now what would it be if the person says you know what I am going to go down a bar row but I am NOT gonna look at anything and I'm not going to be tempted by anything you have one guy who said and and the other gentleman would say no I'm not going to test myself I'm gonna go down the route that doesn't have any bars right and yeah who is considered a more righteous person he goes the way it doesn't have the same case why because it's not your place to test yourself XO cemetery ah very good that's the key that's the key that testing is up to a Shem we try to say Hashem you are the one who decides when I should be tested I am NOT gonna be looking for tests you know I always tell people here you know that this world is hard enough you know just lettuce she'll be the one who tests you because the truth is we say that Hashem is the greatest coach you know he's the greatest judge and he knows exactly our level and he'll know exactly how to test us in the best possible way um you have there's an interesting there's anything I heard once yeah this is a problem i struggle with um there's a sham give a person a test that he can't accomplish yes is it possible that a shim could give you a test that you can accomplish yeah yeah she should be hunger if not everything is in your power right to show there are things in your power I always say you know um I like to think that a shim gives that won't give me a test that i can't accomplish and a person should to a certain degree look at his test like that that if a shim is giving me this test that it must be that i can accomplish it it must be that i can accomplish it and that'll help a personal all the time overcome a test i think it like sometimes you're giving a test specifically because you're not gonna be able to then the lesson in it isn't that you're going to pass the test so no so i think you're right i agree with you that that it could be the other testing you can't overcome but I the point is that it's not up to you to decide that you what's expected of you is that you try your hardest you're expected to try hard as yours give up on the test right right you're right you you can't look at it as you know this one is too big for me and I'm not gonna overcome in your your your assumption is I can overcome whatever her Shem gives me and I'm gonna try to I'm gonna look at it like that also another aspect of tests that we can't handle is that no I shall always Shem won't give us a test that we can't overcome he's always going to give us a test that we overcome that we can overcome the point is though what I understand to be overcoming it might not be the correct definition I'll give an example if I go I guy that always use food examples right and I find myself in a all-you-can-eat buffet right now and I don't need so much to fill up maybe one plate and I say to myself wow I am NOT gonna pass this test right I'm gonna have six to eight plates right so so maybe I'm looking at it wrong maybe the point is a Shem understands that you are not gonna have only one plate but maybe a Shem says you passing the test is to only fail a little bit you're looked at it like that that that that what I want meaning meaning to pass the test the test is really that you don't hit rock bottom the test is that maybe you have three plates right you only needed one but you can't only have one it's too hard so maybe the test is that ah I should have only once we have two plates or three plates right to have eight plates would mean I've hit complete rock bottom right and it could be that the test is just to not fail to the degree that you could so in that way Hashem doesn't give you a test that you can't overcome it's just the test might not have been what you thought it was obviously a child understands that you know we can't all be a student some of us are like a solid c minus and you know i love you got a c-plus he's gonna be happy ah exactly exactly the test the test in life are to do better than you did previously here that the test in life are to do better than you did previously that you i always say the best analogy for Judaism there's a lot of good analogies but if i could compare to one sport i would compare Judaism to swimming a swimmer all right he's not necessarily he is on a team but he's really basically competing against himself and when a swimmer finishes his lap right or whatever however many laps he's doing he finishes he gets to the end he looks up at the scoreboard right now what's the swim we're looking for whose time is he looking for his own time doesn't really matter to him the times of anyone else on the board doesn't matter if you got first place second place third place what's he looking at he we see that he got better right so I think that this life is very much like that that my goal in life is to be better than I was yesterday to overcome this test a little bit more than i did yesterday right and that's called overcoming the test that's come on becoming the test another interesting thing just one more thing about challenge the hebrew word for challenge is a nice i own a nice i own mision see on um right in that word very interesting is the word actually nace a miracle an ace nice Godot hiya Sean right that's we say about the dreidel a great miracle happen there so the core root of the word miss I own is a miracle now rabbi tats ask this question that it seems to be a contradiction right if a challenge is really based on me overcoming it so what's the aspect of miracle what miracle is involved what the whole essence of a test is that I overcame it you're the question what's busy what does it have to do with it what does it have to do with me overcoming the challenge and especially to call it a miracle I mean to a degree is how many giving that you constantly got in your head the southern your users just you know sitting there all day pretending to be you and putting ideas in America get anything done what very good point very good right and we say that's that's really the secret to to overcoming test that the truth is it is a Shem and to the degree that you can realize that Hashem is is guiding you nation is helping you know shemesh is really leading you through the test that could be the degree of success that you have to the agree that you think that you're alone um you really think it that you don't need a chef's help very often times a person will fail those are the tests that a person is going to fail because doesn't realize that that this is an opportunity for me and Shem to work together to overcome this could be okay good so that's what we said about tests this is probably one of my favorite request from a Shem we say well touch late Bono Yates RL do not let the Yates ahora rule over me what does that mean that I I'm pranked her shine that the HR should not rule over me so because it would be just stuff as they get rid of you that would be rude just oh god I know take this take the entire content of a test away from me can't say that right so it's just saying give me the strength to not give in to the utahar every time oh very good that that gentlemen we have a basic understanding Judaism doesn't really agree with the Christian idea really with anything but this is another aspect that we disagree that I think I think the Christian thought looks at the eel inclination the whatever they sat on as a fallen angel meaning someone that's not under the control of God whereas for a Jew we look at the evil inclination as what as eight just another though was due to her before he was in our heads he was the snake he was working directly for him I guess he still works for the Sham but like at that point you know he was direct worker he's basically I mean I can't say why they're not he whether neighbors didn't say explicitly in or but to a degree you know he was and then he enjoyed his job too much so he kind of Austra from sit out and got his body taken away it's so you could be on to something I'll just tell you the main idea though um is that the eight Sahara is under the control of God right thank God hired v8's are already created the eights are in order to test us right and and not only is he he's not just even he's not even just another worker of God he's maybe the main worker because via us overcoming him we get the greatest good that it she wants to give us right the UM I think it's a Midrash that explains that the yates ahora is somewhat like there's a there's an analogy of a king who wants to test his son right the Prince to make him to become the next king so he hires a prostitute in order to tempt his son right now the prophet has to do her best in order to tempt this Prince right but but deep down she also wants him to overcome her right everyone's on the side of the king she say that the same about the let's not to get into thinking that he is on the Kings side because we don't want to give him any uh any slack the gate Sahara but just to realize that that the King created him that a sham created him in order to test us and if that's true so that means he is under shams control so we pray to assure Michelle you essentially have the dial on the power of my eight Sahara you know and I think each one of us realize is that at any moment you see based on some test that we have that at any moment you can just get urges inside yourself you can be put in positions where your gate Sahara is is completely overcoming you you know and you could look at an analogous because the answer is in a sham power to really turn the dial super test medium test so we'd ask a sham sham you're the one who's in control of this dial keep the hitter at bay keep him to a level that I can overcome him that he doesn't completely overcome me today right so we then say so we just got on saying that we ask a xem that the evil inclination inside of us should not dominate us then we say distance us from an evil person and an evil companion right um what does that mean distance us from an evil person and an evil companion what are the differences between the evil people evil companions evil people be those that are it sounds like it's the evil people be the ones trying to do evil to you and you will campagna be the one I want you to do evil with them maybe okay difference of two and with you know okay fine fine um the deb can you and connect us with the good inclination v8 saratov hoover maasim tovim connect us with the good inclination and with good x right what does it mean to be connect we're asking a sham we're praying HR Michelle please um make us stuck to or connect us with the good inclination inside of us so it's like a let's say you're uh you're in the sweltering heat of Jerusalem in the Sonia and that supposed to mean that that's you you two years ago right yeah you're saying crank that AC hahaha right i mean the basic understanding gentleman is that we have two sides of us we have a inclination towards godliness we have an inclination towards not towards uh physicalities right and it's up to us who we choose to be connected to do we want to be have our yates or Tobin control or do we want to have our Yates ahora anchor I mean deep down we all want our Yates or taupe we want our good inclination to be in control of us but like I said we fall very often to the you look at it so we ask Asha Michelle please connect us with the good inclinations inside of us right um and compel right we say the hoof se train at least a bit lock and compel are good and evil ah compel our inclination the Hebrew is compel our inclination to be subservient to you compel our inclination to be subservient to you the english i see the english translated as the evil inclination the hoof s eats rain will leash tepid law doesn't say good or bad it just says compel our inclination to be subservient to you right so all this let this is going to take a little bit of explaining right very interesting shouldn't what mini meaning shouldn't the inference is that let our evil inclination be subservient to you right but the problem is we already kind of said that right we already said I'll don't let the evil inclination rule over us perform a sense it up just cuz you have information to you know do what is what is good do good things are going to doing the right things in the right way and keeping in mind the right reasons while you're doing the right thing very good keep me in line of your favor yeah is that is that that there's two aspects of a human there's we want to stay away from the evil but even a lot of the time the good inclination uh it might we want it to be as good as possible that's what you're saying right with the right intentions very good very good um good and then we say grant us today and every day grace kindness and mercy in your eyes and the eyes of all see us and give us Cassidy me Toby good kindnesses very good Brooke Latasha I'm comal castaneum tovey he gives us gives good kindnesses to the Jewish people okay so gentlemen and then we have this uh this prayer at the bottom page 20 21 where we basically just a sketch them to keep us away from all different types of negativity and that is the basis of the morning blessings right and like we said the key point here is gratitude that we should all be in inculcating inside of ourselves gratitude to a sham and just a quick review why is it good what would what will happen if we are more gracious if we feel more gratitude towards a xem how is that going to change our lives actually appreciating the things you have you know you won't go on strike a few things you don't want or need because if you're trying to fill that void of you know when you think you don't have it you need really good time for guys all you right right right very good and i would add also is that you the person that you're gracious to you're going to want to help them you can want to do what they want right if a person bites you something nice you want to give back to them so if we are really contemplative on all the good that a Shem is doing for us so it'll be a very simple thing that we want to give back to him and the truth is he gave us a very good way to give back you know it's it in fact he almost urine to give back to the degree that a person feels gracious he wants to give back right imagine I even an analogy imagine i gave you invited you over for shabbos and fed you delicious food and I said you're not allowed to say thank you and I said you're not allowed to say thank you how would you feel watch your step Oh stripes what's that supposed to mean if it's you but how would you feel what you'd want to say thank you know someone does a really good thing maybe maybe it's a religious questions you want to be thanks for you know I'm just giving an analogy I'm not I don't know III don't know yo guys I don't think I would because I don't think it's I mean there's no really meaningful different I don't think thank you really have any meaningful impact okay fine but the point is the point is why do we say thank you what is the person for appreciation to show appreciation right that we have a hopefully we were raised that we want to show appreciation when someone does good for us right and if we don't have that opportunity to show appreciation a lot of time in it should you know if we were brought up with a certain level of gratitude that it should Eric us that we can't give back right believe in backyard of show preciation is that about that um Thank You Supreme means waiting renters there's definitely higher ways to give back there's nothing meaning if I bought you a car you would assume hopefully that just saying thank you okay that that I would assume that there need to be a little bit more right so so I think that that's one of the ideas with a sham that to the degree that we can feel the gratitude um of all the good that he's doing for us will want to do for him and it was even greater about it shine as he said you want to do good for me I have tons of ways there's those people that they'll give you film for free in the condition you use that every day and you every day we appreciate you put it on you you use it you know you can either come every day it's kind of a sale yeah right yeah it's very good weight so so so that's the point gentlemen that if i can truly feel gratitude towards the show then I'm gonna be serving him on a very high level just out of thanks it's the least I can do a xem link look at all the great things you do for me the least I can do is to give back to you via a mitzvah and you want to know what's even funnier about a mitzvah right we think it's an aspect maybe of giving back but the truth is that's that action gives us the greatest good we could possibly have in the world league said when a jew does mrs. when he does with the created universe wants of him he is enabling himself to receive the greatest good the greatest reward that the creator of the universe has for him for any human when we do Mithras when we learn and we daven when we when we do what a sham wants of us we're um making ourselves worthy for the greatest possible good so it's almost often not it's like the greatest system ever that a sham we feel gracious version we say Shem I want to give back to you so much as you want to know you can give back to me do mitzvahs but it turns out the mitzvahs are the greatest possible good for us again right I use this as an analogy imagine your mother buys you a car right and you asked you say wow mom thank you so much can I please let me do something back for use or anything I can do for you today and she says can you take out the garbage so would you take out the garbage gentleman yeah of course you would right so your mom buys you a car your mom buys you a car and she says I want you to take out the garbage now that acting action of taking out the garbage it doesn't really have any intrinsic benefit for you let's say you're not even living at her house so taking out the garbage doesn't all it does is it makes her happy that it but I knew it doesn't have much of an effect on you so you're doing it for her you said you did a good acting for me mommy I'm gonna pay you somewhat even though it's not anywhere near paying her back but I'll take out the garbage right now let's say one like this mom buys you a car tamam thank you so much is there anything i can do fuchsias yes it's matter of fact yes I want you to take this credit card yes yes I would you take this credit card and go buy yourself whatever you want that's it you can thankfully that make any sense not really that's like that's like unbelievable right that the way that that what you know like I don't get that that's a century is happening with the show we meditate on all the good things he's doing for us giving us side giving us a uh-oh we can walk we can move we can hear we can we have a purpose all these nice things we said Cheb please anything let me give back to you he says you know you can get back to me I want you to do these mixes that's like giving us the credit card because the mitzvahs are the greatest thing we could be doing for ourselves so it's not like when your mom says take out the garbage meeting that alone you of course you should take out the garbage even though it has nothing helped you out at all it's the least you can do for your mom meaning even if mitzvahs were only for a Shem we should still do them out of gratitude but it happens to be it's not like that it happens to be that the winters are the greatest things we could be doing for ourselves I'm sorry we're all the sacrifices we need a secretary tourists tons of people sacrificing stuff to God that we can't get ever I know you can't be a good thing that's and we hope to do in the future when they miss yall comes we do we say that Cyprus I can come back first before when sacrifices though isn't that the best mean how does it fit into this how how is that the greatest possible thing for me I need definitely people like the people suppressive definitely bothers friend he's always do a pregnancy of sacrificing since I professor sweet me bein stronger way well i wouldn't i wouldn't put them above necessarily they are a big thing um but it with with princes and john we don't tend to put one mitsui above the other during the Second Temple period the prayers and sacrifices were happening together they work they were guests with the sacrifices forbidden stopped so pray but we can't decide this okay okay so we don't have is also right now right so what so what exactly is it I'm security that seems like then therefore the stock prices are closer to God this the segments are a bigger Mitzvah we're possibly the closer to them what does that mean the clothes you need the altar for him means it's an extra mean it's a big deal right that's a hold of what do you mean I say they're closer to what's inside it's a more I don't know mean it's a more appreciated I think hard to tell a big director appreciate it i'll say point like this this what i thought you're saying me maybe I'm an answer maybe not that you know listen there are certain mitzvahs that um were given that we see how they benefit our lives we see that that you know it's it's a it really God commands me to do something but I see that besides being gramma of God it's really a great way to live and it really helps me with my family helps in my society right um and they're certain mrs. that I don't see that with always the students is that I don't understand exactly how it benefits me in this world in an extra virgin sacrificing it could be it could be what we won't use any specific examples but the point is gentlemen when I say that a Shem has the greatest good for us the rom Hall himself says that that that the greatest good is going to happen in the next world right that that there's a lot of misses that we don't understand exactly how it's good for me we don't exactly exact but we say they're out there I'm call tells us that that in the next world you'll you'll be able to understand how all the midst is truly truly benefit you in this world summit is like maybe can understand more than ours no Mitzvah can i truly understand every aspect of there's certain rinses i can understand little bits of and there's other mrs. that i can't understand any of but a jew it needs to Train himself to realizing that the menses are the greatest possible thing for me right that the creative the universe wants to give me the grade is good the myths is other way to do it and sometimes I don't understand exactly how a equals B how me doing the Mitzvah will lead me to my greatest good so that's what we have to have an aspect of trust within a Shem that we have to trust him right even if we might not exactly everything works I don't that exactly was your the answer your question but but it's the way we trust God I mean how something like how these relate to the road I mean it's a narrow strips when we trust that her parents for their you mentioned mom the mom before right so do you think we should be giving you know pop singer mothers me that's my story that came up okay he got your mother so it just occurred to me ok so this famous basketball player right he made he made the NBA if we got that didn't make he was not famous but he great it's he got was the four points whose wife who signed up really quickly we've got this huge cash bonus up from the gate million dollars for something here in the end of the NBA and it is his mom after jailhouse me like you owe me a million dollars that's this is what happened in chic and he was like he gave lighter but like this is something that you think that mean is it was weird howdy right if you're if you your present serve your whole life right should be be do you think here we owe our parents stuff like money or something do do do them this is a cut is a selling the up high slits for the question make sure should name leap in the way I mean way I thought it right with it's like you know but that relationship doesn't it's an is a material right but like so I'm putting in money on it like a new value it's kind of weird that's a little yo such as if no there's no sources return newspapers because it to come to apply your parents here if your parent is a very religious now the way they're probably going to look at that you know just the fact that you were born was your gifted an affinity for you was in response to you allowing your existence gives on the Mitzvah being able to be fruitful multiply of command in the Torah like that's a huge mystery yeah you allow them to do justly being alive and we can they do for you after that point it was kind of thanks to you I mean the other your success is their successful I can see that yeah but I mean what should we be i don't know i mean the Torah the Torah commands us to honor our parents right to give them the respect that they deserve right do are we expected to reimburse our parents for all the efforts that they put in I don't I don't know I don't know exactly I would assume not that I would assume that when a parent has a child there in a way taking on themselves responsibility that this is going to be a being in which I provide for and don't expect a return which is which is truly I'll just I'll just tell you didn't like when we talked about how the world is an analogy that that are our parents our area now that Hashem is also called our parent she was also called for one of the main names we use for Shem his father but also mother there's also the sham also takes on motherly characteristics as well but what's the point the point is that that the same way i share my shem provides for us and he helps us grow and he only wants what's best for us that's that's really what a parent is supposed to be like as well and drew this when we see our parents we can learn more about a Shem based on that that when your father tells you to do something when your mother father tells you think hopefully it's for your own good right when your father's i want you to study for a test and not go out to the bars it's not because he likes seeing you squirming at home studying no it's because he sees the big picture he sees your future and he wants what's best friend he says I know this is what's best for you so I'm telling you you're not going out right now it's not because no it's because it's it's not because I don't care about you it's actually the opposite oh it's only because I care that's why I'm telling you can't go out right so so we have to impose that on a Shem as well that when a Shem ask us of things when he asks us certain laws certain mitzvahs that he wants us to do certain things he wants us not to do it's not because he's a sadistic father that like seeing a squirm right that's ludicrous to think that right and the sad thing is you do have some fathers like that so so so the analogy doesn't always work but i think the s the essential father you know that the essential i think probably that we want to be at least to our children is is one in which we provide for a child because we want what's best for him and we as we hope we hope that he will become an upstanding individual that's that's the greatest gift he can give us that's really what we want and we're willing to invest as much as necessary in order for that and that's that's really the same with the chef that that he doesn't one you know that the greatest payment we can give back to our parents raise pain we give to a chef is that we truly become the person that he wants us to become why are your parents all right that's not for level isn't it your actual parents the forefathers like Isaac a coven you know there that's interesting wise it's the fam be fought it and also on the parents kinda loose term for it but the parents of the your teachings like ya rabbi yeah okay that's that's actually great um I technically i don't i'm not sure meaning meaning what the midst of honoring parents involves acting in certain ways right there certain like like Kent if your father has a certain seat that he likes that you're not allowed to sit in it right so I don't know if that applies across at Barrett that can't really apply to let's say our forefathers they don't have but but for sure there's an ANA spiritual level that metal right meaning how can I I can I can honor my right right right right sure is serving your mother follow me same commercial I mean what touching keep sending your parents for nursing home no is that something you can't when when they reach that point if you can't take care of themselves take care of them yourself then yeah you do it a very best for them you can what should we do generally it's either you take care of them at your home or these predictions can give themselves an hour I mean either Athens acting very sensitive question isn't that that that's definitely be on my a trapeze exactly you know when it gets to that what were what's called I mean it's just that they can't eat no they should either be and care for the facility where they can have people around that can help them can you help maybe not stolen from the pen weapon or should it be living in your house with you right which is more traditional possibly but that's very common for some people you know although the people to a nursing so good that's all first comment baltimore comic-con keeping house colleague Lena listen I would say the goal is to try to do what's best for your parents in that scenario if you know obviously not under maybe every circumstance if there's certain nursing homes that are very very expensive so then you talk with a rabbi to try to decide what's a good middle ground but yeah I'm asking dystrophy because we go back to we're coming forward you just pay your parents if you're successful it's an honoring them by paying them it's like on the point easy to want them to live poorly i don't know i mean ii sure if you think you can help your parents or d be doing that share price you ask kids basis but surely the Trinity they'd be real or should I be asking though that's the other question should you just be doing it is it I if you depart on an aggregation for kids very much case by case though like I know like I've had a conversation like this with my dad and like you know he's made it very clear that I'm not allowed to monetarily help him out a few here at any point and he will not accept it you I've tried to pay for meals before and he refuses it and he thinks it should like some parents aren't like that it's really case-by-case right meaning meaning meaning meaning honoring honoring will take different shapes and forms for one parent the honor that he asks for could be different than what another parents on today ask for from your perspective it could just be within a reasonable basis whatever it takes to honor them obviously you're not a they're not you're not a lot it's not it this mitzvah doesn't over Trump all other mitzvahs meaning if your parent says the way you honor me is by breaking shabbos so you have to be like I'm sorry mom i I can't honor you then I can't brake job is in order to honor you in that scenario but ok next gentlemen we have the blessings right we went through those there's another important thing that a Jew blessing the morning blessings are part 1 of let's say our daily morning right each and every step of the Jewish morning we're not going to get into but there is one specific part that I wanted to talk about and that would be the mitzvahs of sits asst and tefillin right that very nice that a Jew has a mitzvah of tefillin putting on tefillin in the morning really as all the midst of tefillin is all day right as long as there's daylight hours but we say is reason Mike demon limits vez there's a principle injuries and that as soon as a mitzvah comes to your hand you should try under you know as best as you can to do it you know so so that's all you do in the morning right because that's you know it should be one of the first things that I do um okay so we have a mitzvah up to fill in 20 minutes it is and we also have em it's in the morning to say the Sh'ma right three fundamental aspects of being a Jew three very important mitzvahs and yes so the first question is where do we know the you have a mitzvah of putting on tefillin wouldn't have a myth of saying the Sh'ma right where does it come from which its what's its source right someone says did you say shema today you say we're just have to say shema and he says well did you parents film today the word is that where did it where does the torah say that i've just put on tefillin so right we have these powerful words right Ethan you know the Shema your this relies yeah right choice Joe show mukesh oh my god right so we won't get into that right now but basically we go to page 92 93 you see you'll you shall love a Shem you're gone way off this ash MLK bukola vodka with all your heart butthole nav sugar / calm it down with all your soul with all your resource but you had very my Allah let these matters that I command you today be on your heart teach them to your children and speak of them while you sit in your home when you walk on the way when you retire when you arise see that anything when you basically you see right here it says speak of them while you sit in your home while you walk in your way when you're a time when you arise so what is the Torah talking about when it says speak of them when you retire when you lie down and when you wake up it's talking about these words these words are the Sh'ma right so there it's telling us that we have a midst of saying these words which is the Shema if you continue buying them as a sign upon your arm and let them be to fill in between your eyes right see right in the Torah the Torah is telling us a I want you to say these words and be i want you to bind these words as a sign on your arm and between your eyes right so just so we know right we have a midst of doing this when we wake up and at night what are we saying what is the essence of what we're saying and also putting on wearing and there's even a third Mitzvah that involves these words you know what it is continue reading write them on the doorpost of your house and upon your gates what's that called Mzuzu exactly that this paragraph is on your filling in your tefillin it's you say it and you also write it and put it on your door post so whatever these words are they're obviously very fundamental for the Jew and you see that many mitzvahs aren't involved with these words so what exactly how would what would you say is the essence if you just read these words what are we exclaiming right let's go back mice rel I shemal okay no I Shan mahad hear o Israel scheme' is our God I Shem the one and only so what does it mean Hashem listen up all Jewish people Hashem is our God what is that what does that mean gemma is our God when you um we are exclaiming writes that Shem is our God that we recognize that there is a creator of the universe right like you're saying and he has and he's made a specific packed with the Jewish people right it's almost like a claiming our uniqueness that he's our God that a sham has a unique relationship with our people right that he chose us to be the um doers of his will in the world very powerful very powerful statement right you have a large amount of Jews today that don't see the uniqueness of being a Jew right they don't see what's the difference between a jew in a non-jew right but you see if a juice anglish ma with intention every day and he's exclaiming hashem is our God that he chose us to have a unique relationship with to do his mitzvahs and to be a god over us to protect us throughout all the generations as you see he's done right that that should really carve into the Jewish soul unto the Jewish heart like a pride you know a deep-fried for my mission in life right so we say shemal okay no Hashem Akkad Shem is one what does that mean Shem is one right so i would i would just translate that a little bit the only one God meaning the only power the only being that has any power so use this as an as an analogy um you ever worked yeah a job I'm sure where have you worked I'm working right now we're working now JEP it's a venture capital fund okay fine um it's your internship right yeah okay fine so I'm just imagine you get paid right so you're working you step into an interview and your boss tells you it goes through all the issues and says listen I'm going to pay you this amount of money but i'm only gonna pay you if you work on Shabbos line your paperwork on saturday afternoon right now at that point we have to think to ourselves to the naked eye who is the best or of money to the naked eye not to a well-trained jew who gives me money the boss right who's in charge of money going into my pocket is that man he is in charge of money he has power over money he is the god so to speak put it in parentheses where I put it in quotations cuz not true but it seems that he's the one in charge of money right so we train ourselves every day twice a day that when I say i'ma hata I'm saying a Shem is the power over everything for an example money that I'm I shouldn't get confused and think that this man who even though he's the one who puts the money into my hand at the end of every month I shouldn't get confused and say he's the source of the money only a Shem is the source of the money and a chef is going to decide how much I get so what is if that's true so would what is this man who is what role does this man play so we say that of a channel he is the channel that a xem has chosen to be the best or of my money but Hashem can choose a different right money can come from all different types of people bosses parents gifts right so when the boss tells me if you want to work for me you have to work on shabbos I can gladly exclaim no I'm not working for you and he said oh well and how are you gonna get any money I say well the creator of the universe is the one who bestows money and he will bestow me money he's gonna give me money and it doesn't have to come from you right so that's a difficult that that is a difficult level to a reach but maybe that's one of the things that when we say the Sh'ma we can meditate on that when I say that a sham is one I'm saying he is the source of all power in the world money health all the things and that will almost eliminate the veil that the world puts over my eyes that there's no who's in charge of money is your boss who's in charge of health is your doctor right that I really really know they are all merely channels they're merely messengers for for a Shem and that will really have a very powerful effect on my life if I really meditate on that twice a day if I really say it and you see that this message we put we say it we put it in our tefillin and we read it on the mezuzah you